iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteering“How do you respond to a missing call—not from the mind, but from the heart?”This question lingered in my mind the moment I received my first missing call from an 8th-grade student—just the same day of my farewell from Warwadey Middle School, the project school where I relived my childhood days. It was the 4th […]
Head and tail are two faces of a coin which are totally different; I also experience same kind of difference while conducting my first activity with one of our volunteering partner, NGO based out some rural area having their beneficiaries. In our day to day activities we use English as primary language for communication but […]
April 6 was a warm, sunny day. A group of displaced Ukrainian children and their families pulled up in front of the Budapest Zoo beneath a cloudless blue sky. They arrived by public bus, accompanied by a special police escort. The group spent the day exploring the zoo, seeing all the highlights, from the menagerie […]
Volunteering: service undertaken to benefit the society out of own free will for no remuneration. So goes the formal definition. However, let’s ponder – Is it really undertaken primarily with social benefit in mind? That volunteering has a social purpose is without a doubt. Yet, there is tremendous evidence of other key benefits the accrue to the volunteer […]
Covid-19 has changed the way we look at things, it has given a new meaning to the things that we presumed were important, to relationships, to the way we work and to life, overall. It has certainly changed the way we can volunteer. Though volunteering as a concept has been in existence for ages, the […]
Were you also forced to volunteer by your parents or college? In my First Year of college, I volunteered to teach adolescent students English and help them with their interview skills. The organization’s beneficiaries and I were around the similar age-group. At first, I viewed it as an annoyance, just something I had to do […]
Non-Profit Organisation in South Africa- It focuses on providing a Mentor to selected children in Secondary School in some of the most challenging communities in that country. It aims to provide ‘One stable adult relationship’ in the life of those kids that otherwise might not have strong adult role models in their lives, and thus provide them with opportunity, choice and guidance to transform their life.
So far 2020 has not turned out to be a year most of us envisioned. However, while some decided to rant and rave about lost opportunities, others decided to look at the positive side and take advantage of it. I recently shifted to a new school and found out about the IAYP (International Award for […]
Experts share useful tips on boosting employee engagement and corporate volunteering programs with partner NGOs as the world goes virtual during Covid times.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” –Leo Rosten Since our childhood, we are all in a rat race! Right from getting admission in the best college to bagging the best jobs! […]
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